Over three days in June, the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival (SCCMF) will lure music lovers and experience-hungry visitors to South East Queensland with a program of state and regional premieres and some of the biggest names in classical music in Australia.

Orava Quartet. Photo supplied

Though classical and chamber music is still the festival’s focus (this year’s guest include Elena Kats-Chernin, Tamara-Anna Cislowska, Simon Tedeschi, Alex Raineri and the Orava Quartet), the co-directors of SCCMF 2024, Lynne Bradley and James Lees, have widened the lens in the events fourth season to include leading First Nations, jazz and world musicians. The hope is to create a musical conversation.

“Since its inception five years ago, the festival has simultaneously looked to the origins of chamber music – in the intimate and cosy homes of the artists with no conductor – and forward to what chamber music is becoming in the 21st century,” say Bradley and Lees.

“Long thought of as conversation between instruments, in 2024 SCCMF will extend that conversation to include the audience, celebrating the...